Re: Convert numeric to money

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:03:40 -0300, lucas@presserv.org wrote:
> Hi.
> I have searched in mailing-list archives about converting types, but I couldn't
> found a function or clause that convert a numeric type to money type.
> How Can I convert this types?
> 
> => select '1234'::money;
>    money
> ------------
>  R$1.234,00
> 
> => select '1234'::numeric::money;
> ERROR:  cannot cast type numeric to money
> 
> The problem is becouse I have a table with "numeric" field, and I need to show
> it like "money" type (R$ 1.234,00). Is there a function to convert it??? Or is
> there a function to mask the numeric field to show like money (with
> R$x.xxx,xx)???

You probably want to use to_char to convert the numeric value to a string
which can be displayed.